Looking to do something with a bomb cart? No, you don’t need to worry about receiving inquiries from the Department of Homeland Security.
Bomb carts are used by the railroad and seaport industries and are among the dozens of heavy Equipment items made by Greenfield Products LLC, a Union City, Tenn.-based manufacturer of custom-mounted attachments that go onto the forks of forklift trucks, as well as boom cranes. The attachments allow forklift drivers and boom crane operators to raise and then haul giant equipment from one place to another.
Greenfield Products has become so successful and diversified that it recently invested $6.3 million to expand its manufacturing operation and added 100 new jobs over the past two years. Besides the Tennessee plant expansion, the company also added to its sales staff that is headquartered in Hazel Crest, Ill.
“Having an existing foothold in Union City, Tenn., with Greenfield Products over the last seven years made our decision to expand our opportunities into the future an easy one,” says Frank Calomino, Greenfield Products executive vice president.
Working for the Giant
Employees at Greenfield Products earn high salaries and are involved with the engineering, machining and fabrication for some of the largest equipment-hauling devices in the world. The company hires top people to fill positions in areas such as certified welders, CNC operators, electricians, engineers, fabricators, machinists, painters, production planners, quality control inspectors and software technicians.
Greenfield Products
Some of the Fork Lift Attachments that are manufactured by Greenfield employees include:
- Boom dollies,
- Boom launchers,
- Concrete handling carriages,
- Crane hoists,
- Hydraulic container tilts,
- Lifting jacks,
- Masts,
- Pipe handling carriages,
- Steel handling carriages,
- Steel crane mats
- Terminal trailers
The company also manufactures intermodal freight-hauling attachments such as container chassis rotators, container chassis shipping units, container handling spreaders, and bomb carts for the container handling industry.
Serving Major Industries
Many industries that transfer heavy equipment via fork lift attachments and boom cranes are utilizing the engineering and manufacturing services of Greenfield Products. Just a brief sampling of those industries include break bulk cargo, concrete, container ports, crane rental and rigging, intermodal railroad, lumber, mining, steel and waste. In addition, recently the wind power industry has been added to the list with equipment attachments to lift large wind turbines.
